What is normal in Christianity?
Traveling the world for Jesus I’ve seen a lot and the biggest thing I have learned and seen is the normal way we should be living for Jesus. Last year I learned that things in the Kingdom (heaven) can actually happen on earth. This man prays for healings a lot and God has trusted him with this gift but he healed a woman on a plane and her first question was “can all Christians do this?” Can all Christians do this? That should be a simple question but it’s sad that it’s not. A lot of you are probably thinking well ya God can make miracles happen, or maybe you are thinking well yeah he can but not for me or something else. Well I think American culture has made Christianity to blah.
We have turned into a religion that mainly goes to church and says your prayers before meals and bed, maybe you get crazy and pray silently for a sick person you saw. Why are Americans so afraid to lay hands on someone and pray for them? Where is our faith? Do we even have faith? Following Jesus should be uncomfortable but the more you do the things like talk to a stranger and pray for them it gets more normal. In the Bible Jesus says that all power that has been given to him from God, all the miracles he performed we can do all that and more with the Holy Spirit (not quoted but look in John 14:12-14) .
So here is my next question. Do you have the Holy Spirit in you? If you say no then that’s okay ask Jesus for it. If you are saying yes then what’s your excuse? God gives us all gifts. Gifts of prophecy, wisdom, serving, teaching, encouragement, giving, leading, showing mercy (Romans 12:6-8) there are also more, like speaking/ interpreting tongues, healing, prophecy and discernment(1 Corinthians 12:7-11) . So with that everyone has a gift and it says in Romans 12 that what you are given you should freely give to others. Why aren’t we sharing these gifts? What are we afraid of? If God can’t trust us with a small gift how can he trust us with more? If we are living a life full of sin and not trying to change ourselves how is he gonna trust us with more?
Lately my prayer has been asking the lord about all my faults and things I need to either let go of or do in my heart to give him more of me. Some of the answers he is giving me aren’t fun I am not gonna lie they kinda suck. Although now I have brought them to life and can work on changing them. When I was home I struggled because I fell into that culture of being afraid of talking to random people again I fell in this hole of thinking people would think I was weird or this or that but in reality I doesn’t matter what anyone thinks as long as I’m listening to Holy Spirit then I’m doing something right. I was really blessed with coming back out here to get back into what I was missing at home. Living in community-having people around me that will ask me the hard questions and have the conversations that will actually grow me and not just let me be.
So this season of life I want to invite you into what I’m learning and that’s do you have enough faith to do as Jesus did. And if not where are your walls built up and why?
